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TAXONOMY 
Harold Morrison, in Charge 
The Barnes collection of Lepidoptera, purchased for the Depart- 
ment of Agriculture, arrived in Washington on the afternoon of August 
8, after having been packed and shipped from Decatur, Ill., under the 
Supervision of Messrs. Heinrich and Busck, of the Bureau staff. The 
collection and accessories made a load of about 45,000 pounds, practi- 
cally filling a large express car and presenting serious difficulties 
in the matter of proper handling. The collection arrived in excellent 
condition and is already placed in the National Museum, and so is avail- 
able for reference and study. 
Prof. G. C. Crampton, of the department of entomology, Massachu- 
setts Agricultural College, at Amherst, visited the National Museum Au- 
gust 5 to examine certain Diptera in connection with some morphological 
studies which he has in progress. 
Prof. P. W. Fattig, of the Museum, Emory: University, Ga., spent 
parts of the time from August 18 to August 23 in the taxonomic unit in 
consultation with the Bureau's specialists. While here he obtained 
identifications of many insects which he had brought to Washington with 
him. 
Nathan Banks, P. J. Darlington, and F. M. Carpenter, from the 
Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University, stopped in Washing— 
ton and visited the Division of Insects August 19, en route to the Smoky 
Mountains, in North Carolina, where an extensive collecting trip has been 
planned. 
H. K. Plank, of the technical staff of the Tropical Plant Research 
Foundation, called at the National Museum on August 21 to leave for iden— 
tification a number of specimens of insects which had been collected in 
Cuba in connection with economic investigations on sugarcane insects in 
that island. 
Dr. H. E. Ewing, of the taxonomic unit, reports that as a result 
of his work in the field during the summer he has discovered two inter— 
esting new hosts for the chigger-——-the mud turtle and the leopard frog. 
The chigger has been previously found on the box turtle. 
